Aedes collaborated with Molinard to resurrect an old classic: Une Histoire de Chypre (pronounced SHEE-pr; not cheap). It’s heady and complex: an exorbitant fusion of bergamot, mandarin, iris, neroli, jasmine, Bulgarian rose, patchouli, oak moss, musk and amber, packaged in a black box with gold lettering and a Lalique bottle with a black spray-bulb.
The owner seemed to object to my description of it as pleasantly “after-shavey.”
— I object too. From Secrets From the Temple of Scent, an article about Aedes de Venustas in the New York Times.
Sometimes the designation of a perfume as a 
